The subject of the painting is a depiction of a mountain landscape. Near the bottom of the picture plane in the foreground there’s a canal through the mountain side. If you look closely you can see someone in the water climbing up the rock. The overall theme of the piece seems to be very peaceful and exciting. Hassam uses a few visual elements of form to support his painting.
The painting is oil on canvas and contains an extensive amount of contrast. For example, the bright vermillion blanket against the dull eggshell colored door. The disparity between the colors used is prominent. Additionally, the fusion of ornate patterns and simplistic solids is evident. The tablecloth is a geometric mixture of cream and periwinkle.
In 2003, Kerry James Marshall created the painting known as Gulf Stream. This painting, according to the exhibit label, was based on a painting by Winslow Homer, also titled Gulf Stream. (exhibit intro panel) Marshall’s painting depicts a black family on a small sailboat sailing toward dark clouds. On the other side of the clouds, rays from the bright sun radiate out and reflect off the water.
Behind him, another man is holding some instruments. In the background, there are waves of blue. At the left side of the painting, there are lightening bolts. At the bottom left of the painting, there is a board connecting the ground to the boats, allowing some animals to enter. Behind that, there is a person on a ladder, carrying an item on their back.
Its’ so unique, I never heard about oil painting on a canvas until I researched further on about this piece. The sunset in a background looks exactly like most of the sunsets here in Calgary. This piece has a lot of simple parts of it that are a lot like Canada. If you search up Tom Thompson’s paintings most of the pictures that come up are the jack pine painting. There are some pictures of it that have transformed it and made it different colors and shapes.
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grand Jatte was not accepted by society until after the death of the artist. The artwork is an oil painting on canvas and took over two years to complete. Even after the completion of the artwork, Seurat went back a couple years later and added a frame to the piece in hopes that more people would like it.
This piece was named “Endgame”. It’s oil on canvas that was created in 1944 and it is 17 inches by 17 inches. This painting is a surrealist style. The painting is a chess board with four rooks displayed in the upper right corner and they are white and light blue. From the rooks, there are faint white lines representing the queens moves on the board.
There are bright colored flowers that lead your eyes up to the castle. The castle appears large as it takes up the better portion of the painting. Its pointed peaks appear to reach the fluffy white clouds. The base of the castle is surrounded with trees to also add to the sense of
It is thought to be the first one-woman exhibition of the island. In this picture palm trees opens up a painting of a serene beach landscape. The painting shows a shore of a beach and a town in the distance.
The painting depicts what seems to be a panoramic view from afar but looking closely each aperture and objects make up the impressions of faces. From the left side there seems to be an aperture looking over a big cliff with branches of trees. This cliff and branches make up the face of an old person. The rock exposures within the cliff form the illusions of wrinkles, wrinkly lips and a long and untreated mustache. The branches give the effect of baldness, contributing to the overall appearance of an old man’s face.
Art Statement My drawing incorporates a colorful sky with, two building at the left side, reflecting over the colorful ocean. At the adge of the drawing its black and it has an ocean that has the refelction of all the colors of the sky. What inspire me in creating this artwork. , was the beautiful multitude of colors combine that are demonstrated in the drawing, I decided to use this picture as my landscape drawing, because it incorporates a lot of time and patience with the drawing because of the different colors it has.
It was a simple landscape piece by Jervis McEntee. In a room full of brightly infused color landscape paintings, this one looked dark. As a result, the painting drew attention to itself. At first glance, one may think it was gloomy, however, it was quite the opposite. Within the finer details, two men can be spotted.
Mystic Waters The painting entitled Storyteller by Andrian Bekiarov is a silent imaginary seascape, depicting a beautiful long hair woman in a velvety black dress, blowing a misty swirl of smoke from an incense holder on the table. She allows the smoke to move across the palm of her thin pale hand, flowing upward into the dark eerie night, while it creates an ancient ship sailing in the rough sea, on a voyage to the unknown. It’s brilliant flow of poetry and figurative fantasy with magic and mystery. The artist captivates the mind and senses with his impressionistic style, while telling a story of mystery and love.
Craig LaRotonda’s ‘Divine Messenger’ exhibit displays the theme of grotesque and cynical pieces. However, the piece The Dawning illustrates a nude siren traveling in a dark ocean at night. The siren is depicted similar to the siren’s of Greco-Roman mythology: beautiful women with long scaly tails. The painting is composed of acrylic on wood but looks as if it is actually a printed picture. The sky in the painting is almost as dark as the water with bluish grey clouds and is illuminated by a full moon.
This helps to create a close up look at the view outside the window suggesting the intimacy between the artist and the habitat outside. This is because the focus is almost wholly given to the view outside the window. The view, which is embellished by the presence of flowers sitting on the windowsill, and creepers climbing on the railing, is located in the center of the composition. Despite the lack of a line of symmetry and any logic or geometric order, Matisse has been able to draw the attention of the viewer’s eye through the use of bright colours, almost fluorescent, which were used to portray the calm sea with its floating blue boats, and the sky tinted with the colours of the sunset. The calm sea at the horizon is painted with unreal tones of pink, sky blue, and violet whereas the boat, painted with tones of indigo, orange and green, seem to move along with the light breeze.
